Comments on: Metal Gear Solid Movie Canceled

By: Furtive Fox

Furtive Fox — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:23:35 +0000

I feel they should leave the “Solid Series” alone. MGS is already like a movie, but Metal Gear is not. Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake are stuck in 8-bit hell. I am currently writing a Metal Gear movie script my self. Why? Because no one else is. It goes from MSF’s destruction by Cipher and follows Snake from his induction into FoxHound, to training, to the rise of Outer Heaven, and then pretty much follows the MSX game to a T from there. I just took what Hideo wrote and added movie “spice” to it. For example instead of walking into the room adjacent to the prison cell where Gray Fox is located and “I’m the Shot Maker… Die Snake!” it’s Snake walks into the dimly lit warehouse. He makes his way through the maze of boxes. Suddenly a box near his head explodes into wooden shrapnel as a shot gun shot echoes off the walls. Snake takes cover immediately as a low raspy laugh creeps through the dark. The lights clack on. Something like that. And unlike Hollywood, this is open to the fans to say stuff like Snake wouldn’t do that or he should do this or you got this part wrong. In which case me and my team fix it immediately. For the record Hideo doesn’t want to make a Metal Gear Movie, he doesn’t even want to make any more games. Sons of Liberty was to be his last, then he got death threats, then he made Snake Eater to answer un addressed questions and it was to be his last. Then more threats, then Guns of Patriots (Snakes advanced aging was his way of trying to tell us this is getting old), then his team just wasn’t cutting it so here we are awaiting Rising by a very tired Hideo Kojima. I think it’s a bit sad really. I tweeted Hideo about my project and he seemed happy then started tweeting about motivated foreigners.
Things to note, No I’m not filming this in my back yard. This is just a fan script project for all MG fans to contribute to. Also I seriously doubt you will ever see this script made into a movie, this is just for fun. Hideo said he will not remake the original Metal Gears and that a foreign studio could if they so choose. I have a group on deviant art for this, but I haven’t checked on it in a long time due to crappy internet service. I plan to devote a lot of time into that group once we upgrade our internet so if you are interested in contributing to this fan project, you can do it there.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 05:54:09 +0000

I think this is for the best. I can’t imagine how they would capture the spirit of MGS in a movie. Imagine having 30 minute codec calls in a film. It would turn out a disaster and ruin MGS. Good call here.

Though I can’t say that I am not still a little disappointed.

By: Dude

Dude — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:13:47 +0000

I think this news is disappointing. Raymond Benson doesn’t seem to be doing any more novelizations of the games, and it takes too long and it’s too frustrating for me personally to play the games, but I really love the story. That’s why I want this turned into a movie. I think they did Resident Evil extremely well, but with MGS they need to keep it as faithful as humanly possible. I think Raymond Benson would be a good choice to write the script since he did such a great job with the novelization. And I’ve seen a picture of the guy who plays the voice of Snake in the first game and I see no reason why he couldn’t do the live action Snake.

By: shannon

shannon — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:17:22 +0000

if we are all such metal gear fans, why can we not see that hideo is the only choice for a director. he wrote and directed all the games we are crazy about so why would any of you think that he wouldn`t be the best choice to stay true to the story and charactor that we know. he may have to have a translator but i think if you make the actors play through th=e games or watch someone play through the games i think that would give the actor the insite int the charactors as well as hideo giving more backgroundon each charactor.

By: booger

booger — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:27:40 +0000

who could they get to play a good Snake? if Harrison Ford wasnt so old he would be a decent option if you pickout of the A actors really he is the only one that could be considered for snake out of famous actors.
David Hayter would be a terrible choice to play snake in a movie he looks nothing like him. i also heard that whoever was making the movie didnt want him to be any part of the movie process. im glad that a MG movie is nolonger being made it would stain the series image like someone mentioned.
the old farts in hollywood just dont understand that THERE ARE some things that shouldnt be turned into a movie i.e. dragonball, resident evil/BIOHAZARD, and just video games in general
(although Silent Hill is one of my favorite movies)
@Ben- Edward Norton acts, writes, and directs and hes awesome at all 3, so why cant David do the same? (John Favereau does the same thing)